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About Me (Bio)
James E. Smith is a doctoral student at the University of Arizona in the Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies: Mathematics Teaching and Teacher Education and Cognitive Science Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) minor programs. He is also a master’s student in the Statistics GIDP. Prior to pursing his doctoral degree, he earned an MA in English as a Second Language and an MA in Elementary Teaching and was an elementary teacher in South Korea and the US. He currently works as a graduate assistant on the Developing and Validating a Scalable, Classroom-Focused Measure of Usable Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics: The Classroom Video Analysis Instrument project where he works on recruitment, contributes to item construction, automates data collection, and conducts psychometric analyses. His research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to measures of teacher knowledge and practice. He is specifically interested in the use of Markov models as a novel, scalable method to measure and model elementary and middle school teachers’ teaching practices and usable knowledge. James is a 2019-20 CADRE Fellow.